It's two different basses - check out the top laminate as well. We've been making the Essence basses with the Orion peghead lately. When Peter saw the first pictures, he contacted Susan about his preference for the original cone peghead shape, so we started another bass instead of changing the peghead.

That's great news, Mica.  That is indeed a vivid flame.  The purpleheart laminate is fantastic, too.  I am very pleased.  Will this have to go through the dealer, or can it be shipped directly to me? My new ensemble has a bunch of community gigs coming up, and who wants to play a back-up when they know that they have an Alembic in transit somewhere?!?

Sorry, but I'm certain that the music store will want to handle the transaction, especially because of customs.

Understood; if possible, just let me know when the instrument gets shipped to them, so I can follow up from there.
 
Thanks again.

I spoke with the music store a couple of weeks ago, and they hadn't been made aware of upcoming shipments.  Any word on this?

pts. That bass is beautiful. I hope you get it soon.

All the communication goes through the Montreal location. They made arrangements with us to ship to the Toronto location (it's the first time they've done that), so that will cut down on the time it takes to get to you. I would be surprised if it didn't make it to the store this week.

Thanks, Mica.  I'll follow up with them.

Just checked with Toronto; they don't have the instrument, or any knowledge of these shipping arrangements.

The shipping arrangements are make through the Montreal location, even though they asked us to ship to Toronto.  
 
Yesterday, the carrier asked us to fax a copy of the  NAFTA paperwork we included with the shipment. Mary traced the package today for you, and it shows that it was released from customs today. It will likely show up at the store on Monday. Please let us know if it does or doesn't.